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Definition of Humite
1. n. A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.
Definition of Humite
1. Noun. (minerology) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon. ¹
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Definition of Humite
1. a particular impurity in marble [n -S]
Medical Definition of Humite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Humite
Literary usage of Humite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"A variety of humite from the Allalin region contains beryllium and titanium.
Alteration. ... Cleavage parallel to (001) distinct in humite, somewhat so in ..."
2. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"humite: [Mg(F.OH)],MK,Si,O,,. Orthorhombic. Sp. gr. 3.1-3.2. ... The alterations
of humite to serpentine and brucite involve hydration, expansion of volume, ..."
3. Treatise on Mineralogy: Second Part, Consisting of Descriptions of the by Charles Upham Shepard (1835)
"Several of the properties of humite would seem to render it probable that it may
be identical with Brucite. At present, however, the crystalline forms of ..."
4. Rock Minerals, Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1906)
"Euhedral crystals of humite rare, small, and highly modified. Anhedral crystals
in rocks ... Cleavage parallel to (001) distinct in humite, somewhat so in ..."
5. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrography from the Laboratories of the by Samuel Lewis Penfield, Louis Valentine Pirsson (1901)
"J In the humite group three distinct species are at present recognized, each
characterized by the occurrence of certain forms which are not found on the ..."
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